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Calling all sales managersElectronic Media and Wolfe Media are surveying TV station executives about the development of new revenue streams in local TV markets. If you are a TV station general manager, general sales manager or local sales manager, please…
In a victory for broadcasters, the Federal Communications Commission last week announced that it had cleared the way for stations to slash digital TV power and hours of operation.Under the FCC’s previous rules, broadcasters were supposed to air DTV signals…
“On April 14, 1912, David Sarnoff was listening casually to the routine flood of dots and dashes [on the wireless],” according to a passage in his official 1966 biography. “Suddenly he was stung to startled attention. The message was dim…
“Bob Wright is one of the brightest guys I’ve ever met,” says Andy Fisher, president of Cox TV. “He’s engaging, thoughtful, with tremendous energy. He excels at challenging conventional wisdom. He’s not only willing to take a fresh look at…
ALAN FRANK Text: Representing NBC’s oldest non-owned affiliate, WDIV-TV, Detroit, I want to congratulate NBC on its first 75 years of excellence in broadcasting. Ever since its momentous first radio broadcast on Nov. 15, 1926, from the Grand Ballroom of…
It began in the fall of 1976 with a phone call to my Boston townhouse. The hot young executive du jour of Twentieth Century Fox Television said he liked my novel “Going All the Way” and asked: “Would you like…
Before there was a peacock, there was a tune played on a chime that indicated your radio dial was tuned to the National Broadcasting Company, and if you didn’t get off the couch to change the station, you were most…
The story of color TV in America is your classic Goliath wannabe vs. David tale.The Goliath wannabe at the time-1949-was CBS. The company had a booming broadcast business on radio and a record business as well, but it wasn’t as…
Dick Ebersol leans back on the couch and lights up a 10:30 a.m. cigar. Since Mr. Ebersol has been up for many hours, starting with his pre-dawn attack of the treadmill, as befits a network executive, this is like a…
While Fox and CBS have the most to crow about after the first week of November sweeps, they might not want to start dreaming of all those ad dollars just yet. Three reasons: the World Series, the Emmy Awards and…